So, you wanna be a skateboarder?

I love my skateboard. Almost as much as hauling glass. Nothing says fun like standing on top of a 12' tall piece of glass.

 

I just finished my first year OTR. Got real lucky and was hired on be a good smaller company with no OTR experiance. I have learned to love flatbedding, I even enjoy tarping. June of 09 when I was hired I had to take a DOT physical, I weighed 299 lbs. One year later I'm at 260 lbs. Make no mistake, this isn't an easy way to earn a dollar. Real rewarding though. I changed companys in January and went to hauling hay with a cabover truck and trailer.June and July is the slow time due to the pasture grass down in California being good, so I have been running regular freight again 2500 mile weeks are a little harder in a spring ride cabover. It's a wonder you old timers survived years of this.

 

Brick, I wasnt refering to P & D local stuff, I was talking Wisconsin to Miami in a day and a half, with 13 drop in the next day and a half...........okay, back to tarping loads of shingles....grin.

 

Why should I have to pay YOU to unload the stuff YOU ordered?

 

Certainteed in Milan ohio was the last shingle place I knew that made you tarp and they don't do that anymore. They only did it if you were going more than like 200mi and only because the shingles were in paper wrappers with a plastic bag covering the whole skid which would blow off. They finally got smart and switched to plastic wrappers but now that's some of the cheapest freight you can haul so I haven't been back there for a long time.

Personally, ONLY because I care about my customers freight so much I take the added time and effort to hand tarp each and every load I haul whether it needs it or not. I spend as much as 15sec at each end of the trip (not to mention the added blood and sweat on the rare occasion the trailer is on a slight hill and I have to actually push it each way) just to make sure the freight arrives in the same condition it was loaded. This is service your just not going to receive just anywhere!

 

I'm glad you "CARE" so much for your customers that your willing to "work"
so hard J......

 

Good looking wagon.........too many axles for me....but good looking wagon.

 

Love to the load i a can tarp a full lumber load in 20 minutes or less its a little thing called keeping clean something i take great pride in not being some sweaty dirty dirt ball thats stinks up the inside of my truck.[/QUOTE]

20 Minutes? Are you sure?

Is that like fitted tarps on plywood?

 

What is the skateboard in the middle called? I love them and if i go skateboarding I want to know the pros and cons of using one like that.

 

Looks like a low boy...if it has ramps on the rear.....it is.

Kinda hard to see....not a good pic.